Your yearly gift to Mississippi State through the MSU Foundation or the Bulldog Club automatically makes you a member of the Alumni Association.

Why should you be an active member the Mississippi State University Alumni Association? Here are a few reasons...

Your Infinite Impact contribution to Mississippi State...

Is tax-deductible.

Helps update lab equipment in research centers.

Provides direct support to students through scholarships.

Supplies seed money for new projects that keep the university on the cutting edge of research, technology and industry trends.

Allows faculty and students to host or attend educational conferences.

Provides for faculty development and teaching and research grants.

Helps maintain and upgrade computer software and equipment for teaching and research.

Allows MSU to hire and retain the best faculty members possible.

Provides opportunities to meet and interact with other alumni through 95 worldwide chapters.

Ensures that you will receive invitations to special events on campus and in your local area.

Provides you with career planning and employment services through a partnership between the MSU Alumni Association and the Career Center. Alumni can participate in resume critiques, on-campus interviews, mock interviews, seminars, and training.

Gives you a way to stay connected through the alumni online community! You can update your alumni information, search for classmates, post class notes, and set up your permanent e-mail forwarding account.

Provides, through GradMed, an inexpensive, comprehensive short-term health insurance for alumni and family members under age 65. It's great for new grads and other alumni between jobs.

Lets you take advantage of special travel programs provided by your Alumni Association.

Gives you the opportunity to hold local or national offices in the Alumni Association.

Guarantees that you will receive the Alumnus magazine, the official magazine of the MSU Alumni Association.

Gives you the opportunity to give back to the university that has provided all of us with so much.